Language and Cognition

Psycholinguistics is the study of the psychological and neural processes that underlie language comprehension and production.

Pragmatics is the study of how language is used in social contexts, and is not a component of language itself.

A concept is a mental representation of a word that includes its meaning, associations, and relationships to other words.

Comprehension is the process of understanding the meaning of a word or sentence.

Production is the process of producing a word or sentence.

Dyslexia is a learning disability that affects the ability to read and write, and is not a type of aphasia.

Cognitive Linguistics is the study of the relationship between language and thought.

The availability heuristic is a cognitive bias that occurs when people make judgments based on information that is easily accessible in their memory, rather than on the actual probability of an event.

A proposition is a mental representation of a sentence that includes its meaning, truth value, and relationships to other propositions.

Cognitive relativity is the hypothesis that the structure of a language influences the way its speakers think about the world, while linguistic relativity is the hypothesis that the structure of a language influences the way its speakers perceive the world.

Sociolinguistics is the study of the relationship between language and culture.

Accent is a type of phonetic variation, while dialect, register, and style are types of sociolinguistic variation.

Feminist Linguistics is the study of the relationship between language and gender.

Conversation analysis is a type of sociolinguistic analysis, while genderlect analysis, discourse analysis, and critical discourse analysis are types of feminist linguistic analysis.

Critical Discourse Analysis is the study of the relationship between language and power.